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The NEC has also been revealed to be the entity that has most
frequently pressured Facebook to remove posts and sanctions
users, reportedly for mentioning electoral fraud. YouTube has
similarly been in the NEC’s crosshairs and channels claiming
(often with clear evidence) that South Korea’s electoral system
has problems have been shut down.

Normally, a nation’s judiciary will rein in the electoral
commission or its equivalent, and serve to ensure the integrity of
electoral processes, systems, and procedures.

However, in South Korea this generally does not appear to be the
case in recent times.

Besides both the NEC and the judiciary reportedly being highly
politicized, the NEC and the courts have very close, almost
incestuous, ties.

For starters, the chairman of the NEC is always a Supreme Court
judge. During the Moon Jae-In era and at the time of the 2020
National Assembly election the chairman of the NEC was a close
friend of President Moon.

Lawsuits involving elections are handled by the Supreme Court.
And because regional election commission chairs are also judges,
they are reluctant to challenge other judges, so there’s also an
obvious con&ict of interest.

Judges often are unwilling or reluctant to hear election fraud
cases. Sometimes it is because of reluctance to involve themselves

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